My first post

Music Interface — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:35:57 -0000

imeem: 'the best of social media'... "imeem is an online community where people and groups can upload, share, tag, and playlist the media they care about. There’s something for everyone:videos, music, photos, playlists, and blogs – plus it’s 100% free!"

Here I am trying it out, wondering how to make use of this place. It appears to be a personal media catalogue - I can blog, I can store music (will have to investigate what this means, at time of writing the upload function wasn't playing ball), video and photos. I can interact with people. My imeem homepage is reasonably configurable - preferences allow me to choose from one of three layouts, an overall colour scheme, add or remove widgets that pull in a variety of feeds, both external (last.fm, NetFlix, del.icio.us, Amazon wishlist, Digg linkrolll, etc.) and internal (blogroll, latest blog post, etc).

Looking at this playlist, it looks pretty reminiscent of a MySpace/Last.fm hybrid, replete as it is with an extended list of user comments. Looking at the same user's video page, I see something of a resemblance to YouTube. His photo albums are nicely displayed with what I assume is a little sprinkling of Ajax magic. The ability to associate images with extended text makes for a nice alternative to Flickr's slightly dull layout.

Playlists can be compiled not just for music, but also for photos and videos. The site facilitates browsing via ranking (most played, discussed, favorited, random, etc) for all media. A smaller number of options (popular/random/recent) enables some browsing of imeem groups, blogs and people. So is imeem an attempt at rolling Last.fm/Mog + YouTube + Blogger + Flickr into a single, coherent interface? Maybe.

Sonne Mond und Sterne

Music Interface — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:11:23 -0000